The forest floors around Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay yield delicately flavored morel mushrooms for crepes, omelets and sauces. This morel sauce recipe was one of the most popular items at Hattie's restaurant in Suttons Bay, Michigan.

You can almost ignore your knife when eating this tender beef draped with rich cream and wine sauce flavored with dried morel or chanterelle mushrooms. The recipe comes from Les Bourgeois Vineyards in Rocheport, Missouri.

This recipe calls for 4 cups of sliced fresh mushrooms, such as morel, shiitake, morel, oyster or cremini. Unless you're an experienced mushroom hunter, buy your mushrooms at a supermarket to ensure you'll get only ones that are safe to eat. (Many varieties in the wild are poisonous.)